"BLAK MASCULINITY"

"BLAK MASCULINITY"

Signed, titled, dated c. 2023, and inscribed "protects blak femininity" on the bottom of canvas.

Acrylic, marker, paper on canvas

20in by 16 in.

Executed circa 2023

Summary of painting:

This painting was inspired by a discussion I had with my 14-year-old son about becoming a man in Al-Islam and how part of his responsibility of Islamic manhood is in his ability to protect the feminine principle in society...his mother, his sisters, his Aunties, his grandmother, and his wife when he gets married.
I told him Masculinity is a response to femininity and femininity is a response to Masculinity and both are compatible with each other in nature.
I told him to look at nature, and you'll see the Masculine principle working together with the feminine principle, and that's where you find harmony....anything else is chaos.